Abuse and denial at the Pine Street Inn

November 10, 2014

A homeless woman decided to sit at the table where I was already sitting.  She then proceeded to cough loudly every few minutes.  After a few rounds of her coughing, I said "I won't put up with that."

She kept doing it. I told Maryse, a Pine Street Inn employee, what was happening.  Maryse said "She can't help coughing."  I said "I'm not getting into a discussion of what the coughing means; you don't have to do anything about her now.  I'm just telling you that she's being a jerk."

Maryse then quite obviously turned her back on me in front of a room of homeless women, signaling to them that I am a target who won't be helped.  

Copyright L. Kochman, November 10, 2014 @ 4:44 p.m.